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Musician: Roy Arbuckle
Location: N.Ireland
Instruments: Voice / rhythm guitar / bodhran
Music: Irish folk / Scottish folk / African folk
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HOW I CAME TO THIS MUSIC听听听听听听听听听听WHERE I PLAY听听听听听听听听听听A FAVOURITE SONG |
  
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 听听Listen (3.02) to 'A Northern Man', performed by Roy Arbuckle and his group, Different Drums from the album, New Day Dawning (Red Branch Records, Londonderry, 2001)
听听Listen (3.37) to Roy Arbuckle talk about his music
Where I Play:
Being a group that represents both communities, means that we get asked to do a lot of civic things.
Very early on I made the decision that we wouldn't go anywhere we weren't invited. In 1992 when we started things were still very touchy. We were still in the war and some people didn't like the idea much the same way as they didn't like the idea of the two communities getting together. We would actually be really nervous sometimes, bringing the drums out so we didn't push it at all. Once in Belfast we had to get a police escort out of a park where we were playing.
We've played in the Whitehouse for St Patrick's Day. We also played to nearly 40,000 people in Omagh but the next day we could be doing a workshop in a school for 30 kids.
The band works on many levels. The farther we get away from Belfast the more it becomes just a big drum and a wee drum. It's only here that the symbols are loaded with memory and association. The drums are an international language.
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